Jahonotin Uvaysiy (1780–1845) was a

Sufi poet Sufi literature consists of works in various languages that express and advocate the ideas of Sufism. Sufism had an important influence on medieval literature, especially poetry, that was written in Arabic, Persian, Punjabi, Turkic, Sindhi a ...

from

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in the

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. She was an Otin-Oys, an Uzbek religious woman held in great esteem. She produced over 15,000

hemistich A hemistich (; via Latin from Greek , from "half" and "verse") is a half-line of verse, followed and preceded by a caesura, that makes up a single overall prosodic or verse unit. In Latin and Greek poetry, the hemistich is generally confined ...

es of verse and it is still popular in Uzbekistan today. The Institute of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent has a collection of her works. Her father, Siddik Bobo, was an admirer of literature who wrote poems in two languages. Her mother, Chinbibi was also an otin.Jahonotin Uvaysiy (1781-1845)
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Bibliography

*Uvaysiy. Devon. Tashkent, 1963 *Uvaysiy. Ko’ngil gulzori (The flower-bed of the soul). Tashkent, 1983. *E.Ibrohimova. Uvaysiy. Tashkent, 1963. *T.Jalolov. O’zbek shoiralari. (Uzbek poetess). Tashkent, 1970. *I.Hakkulov. Uvaysiy she’riyati. (The poetry of Uvaysi). Tashkent, 1982.

References

Uzbekistani women poets 1780 births 1845 deaths 19th-century Uzbekistani poets 19th-century Uzbekistani women 19th-century women writers {{Uzbekistan-poet-stub Female Sufi mystics Sufi mystics Women scholars of Islam Female Islamic religious leaders Sufi poets